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The wounded victims of Sri Lanka's child marriage law
In Sri Lanka the legal marriage age is 18, but under a decades-old community law, much younger Muslim girls can get married. As calls grow for this
law to be amended, BBC Sinhala's Saroj Pathirana meets one young girl
forced to marry against her will.
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